Looking To The Future

October 21, 1985

HAMILTON, ONTARIO — Chinese and computers. Those are the keys to the country's future, says economist Dian Cohen. She said at a meeting of the Canadian Association of Gerontology that the focus should be on teaching Canadians the Chinese language and how to use computers. ''Our wealth is not going to come out of the ground,'' she said. ''Our one advantage is intellectual capital. We are better educated than the people we're competing with who make things. The big market for intellectual capital and knowledge is China.''